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Krita Looking More At GPU Acceleration & AI In 2024

Phoronix - Thu, 03/14/2024 - 18:54
The Krita open-source graphics editor and digital art program is looking at possibly adding some AI features to its arsenal as well as possible GPU acceleration and other new features in 2024...

Mesa 24.1 Adds Support For The Intel Data Center GPU Flex 170G

Phoronix - Thu, 03/14/2024 - 18:43
The current Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series products that were announced in 2022 built off Arctic Sound M are the Data Center GPU Flex 140 and Data Center GPU Flex 170 while now a new "170G" variant was added for Intel's open-source Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...

Mesa 24.0.3 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 03/14/2024 - 18:05
Eric Engestrom has released Mesa 24.0.3 as the newest bi-weekly bug-fix release to the current Mesa 24.0 stable series graphics drivers...

Is Linux Operating System Virus Free?

Tecmint - Thu, 03/14/2024 - 15:00
The post Is Linux Operating System Virus Free? first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

As a Linux administrator with a decade of experience managing Linux servers, I can shed some light on the idea that Linux systems are immune

The post Is Linux Operating System Virus Free? first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linus Torvalds Isn't Happy With Some Of The Bcachefs Code For Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Thu, 03/14/2024 - 08:15
Since the Bcachefs file-system was upstreamed in the Linux 6.7 kernel it's been humming along fairy well. But today the Bcachefs feature updates were sent in for the Linux 6.9 merge window and Linus Torvalds isn't happy about some of the proposed code...

Linux 6.9 Makes A Change To Satisfy Microsoft For EFI x86 Shim Loader Signing

Phoronix - Thu, 03/14/2024 - 08:02
The EFI updates were merged today for the ongoing Linux 6.9 merge window. This cycle the EFI kernel code is seeing enhancements for confidential computing as well as for satisfy Microsoft's requirements for getting them to sign the x86 shim loader again for UEFI Secure Boot handling...

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